Aleksandar Atanasijevic, Captain of Serbia: “This was definitely the worst match for Serbia. The Iranian team did a perfect job in blocking, we have to forget this match in order to focus on the second round now. We have to play with as much strength as possible during the next matches”.

Farhad Salafzoon, Captain of Iran: “We are obviously very happy and I want to give my congratulations to Serbia. Yesterday I said we were getting better and this actually happened”.

Milan Djuricic, Coach of Serbia: “I would like to thank the Serbian team for the match we played. They won as they definitely played better. We could not cope with their block and their serve. We wanted to win this match but we did not manage as they played almost perfectly”.

Jovica Cvetkovic, Coach of Iran: “We had a very good preparation. We have our system for every day of match. Passing to the next round was obviously fundamental for us. We have analyzed Serbia a lot and this helped us finding the best way to compete against them”.